PURPOSE: The Department of Health has the authority to establish construction standards for psychiatric hospitals. This rule provides procedures to follow in the submission of plans and specifications for new construction.

1. (1) Preliminary Plans and Sketches.

   1. (A) When construction is contemplated, either for new buildings, additions to existing buildings or material alterations to existing buildings, the preliminary plans or sketches shall be submitted in duplicate to the Department of Health for review and approval, before the preparation of working drawings is undertaken. The preliminary plans may be reviewed by the Department of Health in schematic form, but before they are declared acceptable for procedure with working drawings and specifications, they should also include the following information, stated briefly and not in detailed form required in working drawings and specifications:

      1. 1. Site plan showing scale, orientation,

street names, topography, walks, drives, fire lanes, parking areas and utilities, including fire hydrant locations;

1. 2. Plans and elevations of the buildings

at a scale of not less than one eighth-inch to one foot no inches (1/8":1' 0");

1. 3. Rooms and corridors, designated by

name and number;

1. 4. Windows. Note wired glass where it

is required;

1. 5. Doors, including door swings.

Identify fire doors by time rating and Underwriters’ Laboratories label;

1. 6. Plumbing fixtures. Show fixtures in

proper shape and scale for positive recognition. Identify special types such as service sinks and clinic sinks. Brief descriptive notes on type of supplies, vacuum breakers, etc., are advisable;

1. 7. Plans of patient rooms shall indicate

principal items of furniture accurately scaled;

1. 8. All other principal items of equip-

ment such as boilers, chiller, cooling tower, electrical substations, tanks and air handlers, fan-coil units, kitchen equipment, laundry equipment, cabinets, counters and any other items which take up space and affect the final layout;

1. 9. Fire and smoke-barrier partition des-

ignations;

1. 10. Floor lines, top ceiling line and

grade lines, designated and preferably dimensioned and with basic elevations shown;

1. 11. Ceiling heights of principal rooms

and also of each room for which the regulations establish a minimum ceiling height. Only one (1) typical room of a group need be so shown;

1. 12. Area of each room for which the

rules establish a minimum area. Only one (1) typical room of a group need be so noted; and

1. 13. Brief noted descriptions of the gen-

eral construction and finish; the structural system; the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system, including the fuel supply; the plumbing system, including the water supply and sewage disposal; and the electrical system.

1. (B) In the case of a project which is an addition to an existing building, it will be necessary to give the Department of Health sufficient information about the existing building on which to base a determination of acceptability of the plans for the addition. This information shall cover all items required to be provided in a psychiatric hospital by the rules of the Department of Health and shall be submitted in such form as required by the Department of Health for the particular project.

1. (2) Working Drawings and Specifications.

   1. (A) Working drawings and specifications, complete in all respects, shall be submitted in duplicate covering all phases of the construction project, including site preparation; paving; general construction; mechanical work, including plumbing, heating, ventilat- 19 CSR 30-24

ing and air conditioning; electrical work and all built-in equipment, including elevators, kitchen equipment, cabinet work, etc.

1. 1. Each sheet of the plans and each set

of the specifications shall identify the project by name and location and shall bear the names and addresses of the architect or professional engineer and the owner.

1. 2. Each sheet of the plans and each set

of specifications shall bear the official seal and signature of the registered architect or registered professional engineer who prepared it.

1. 3. Each sheet of the plans and each set

of specifications shall bear the date of its completion or its latest revision.

1. 4. The plans shall be on sheets of the

same size, securely bound into complete sets, with the sheets in the proper order. The specifications shall be securely bound into complete sets.

1. (B) The working drawings and specifications shall include the following: material required by paragraphs (1)(A)1.–12. of this rule; courses and distances of property lines; dimensions and locations of any buildings, structures, easements, rights-of-way or encroachments on the site; details of party walls, or walls and foundations adjacent to lot lines; the position of trees, dimensions, positions and elevation of all cellars, excavations, wells, backfilled areas and the elevation of any water therein; detailed information by the city engineer or other official report as to established curbs, building lines, streets, alleys, sidewalks; all utilities including size, characteristics and location of these services; piping, mains, sewers, poles, wires, hydrants and manholes upon, over or under the site and location of high pressure gas lines within twelve hundred feet (1200') of the building; complete information as to the disposal of sanitary, storm water and subsoil drainage; official data upon which elevations are based and bench mark established on or adjacent to the side; contours on elevations at two foot (2') intervals over site and elevations at the bottom of excavation; contemplated date and description of proposed improvements to approaches or utilities adjacent to the site; thickness, consistency, character and estimated safe bearing value of various strata encountered; amount and elevation of groundwater encountered in each test pit; elevation of rock, if known and probability of encountering quicksand; average depth of frost effect below ground; high and low water levels of nearby bodies of water affecting groundwater level; whether the soil contains alkali in sufficient quantities to affect the concrete; elevation and location of mine shafts or excavations if the site is underlaid with mines or old workings; and whether the site is subject to mineral rights which have not been developed.

AUTHORITY: section 197.080, RSMo Supp. 1993.* This rule previously filed as 13 CSR 50-24.030 and also 19 CSR 10-24.030. Original rule filed Jan. 31, 1974, effective March 1, 1974. Original authority 1953, amended 1993.